They had bought their new properties at market rates, competing against other bidders, and expected that privity of contract would apply as usual.
12.
"' Field v Fitton "'[ 1988 ] 1 NZLR 482 is a cited New Zealand case regarding privity of contract.
13.
In this case, there was no contract between the owner and the original purchaser, and there was not privity of contract between the owner and any third party.
14.
:: True, but I think a referral to any text on Contract Law in general and Privity of Contract in particular would have been a more reasonable response.
15.
A further complication arose as the buyers of confiscated land in 1652 59 were third parties who expected that their purchases for cash were legal and were protected by privity of contract.
16.
If the developer intends to sell the building to a housing association, due to privity of contract the architect would normally only be contractually liable to the developer should defects arise.
17.
Irish Protestants who had guaranteed the Restoration in 1660 expected to retain the lands they had paid the State for in the 1650s without further interference, relying on privity of contract.
18.
The courts at various times have suggested that the exception to the common law rules of privity of contract may be founded upon " public policy " reasoning, the law of contracts.
19.
A Del Credere Agent not only establishes a privity of contract between the principal and the third party, but who also guarantees to the principal the due performance of the contract by the third party.
20.
He says that there is no privity of contract between them and the board, and that it is a fundamental principle that no one can sue upon a contract to which he is not a party.